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http://ddlorigin.com/gambling-awareness/#respondWed, 23 May 2018 12:10:33 +0000http://ddlorigin.com/?p=17Gambling is a problem for millions of people around the world, and in Canada there is a group that is putting their best efforts forward to try and combat the problem. Fondation Mise Sur Toi will be holding their Responsible Gaming Awareness week from September 17th until September 23rd. The actual time dedicated to this cause will actually be much longer than just a week, 13 weeks to be exact. Two million dollars will be […]

]]>Gambling is a problem for millions of people around the world, and in Canada there is a group that is putting their best efforts forward to try and combat the problem.

Fondation Mise Sur Toi will be holding their Responsible Gaming Awareness week from September 17th until September 23rd. The actual time dedicated to this cause will actually be much longer than just a week, 13 weeks to be exact. Two million dollars will be invested to help get the word out.

Nicole Beaulieu, managing director of Fondation Mise Sur Toi had this to say when asked about the week, “Responsible Gaming Awareness Week is an opportunity for the general public to learn more about their own gaming habits and about the initiatives the Fondation Mise Sur Toi and Loto-Quebec are taking to promote healthy gaming behavior.”

There are other things that the Fondation is doing to help raise awareness outside of the week; a web site will be launched, in addition, various pamphlets and educational material on the dangers of compulsive gambling will be handed out.

There are three major areas that the Fondation focuses on: 1) to protect those who are vulnerable to compulsive gambling 2) to prevent the harmful effects of gambling, and 3)to promote healthy gaming behavior.

The Fondation was created in 2002 and its message is reaching more and more individuals every year. In 2006 5,500 calls to its Help and Referral hot line were received, with more than that expected this year.

Naomi Campbell Puts Turtles in Danger With Casino Business Plan

When a big name celebrity goes into a new business adventure, it receives more scrutiny than when the average person goes into a new business, but supermodel Naomi Campbell is finding out that that’s not always a good thing.

There is a coastal sanctuary in Kenya for turtles, and Campbell and her associates are planning to bring a casino and hotel complex to the land, a move that would almost certainly affect the animals the sanctuary is protecting.

Years of work has gone into saving endangered marine life in the Indian Ocean town of Malindi. The olive ridley, the hawksbill, and the green turtle are all species that come ashore in Malindi and set up their nest to lay their eggs.

Problem that will arise is when these baby eggs are hatched, they navigate toward the brightest natural light. which most of the time is the moon, between the night sky and the ocean. If a casino with all its glitz goes up, the artificial lights and noise could sway the turtles away from the sea, where they could not survive.

Opponents argue that Campbells plan, along with partner and former boyfriend Flavio Briatore, is to build a six star 40 apartment casino, and that by doing so, it would breach local planning regulations.

The defense of the casino is that it would provide dozens of jobs to people who currently live on almost no income.

]]>http://ddlorigin.com/gambling-awareness/feed/0Gamblers Play in California and Forget Reno Nevadahttp://ddlorigin.com/play-in-california/
http://ddlorigin.com/play-in-california/#respondSat, 10 Mar 2018 12:10:32 +0000http://ddlorigin.com/?p=16July 23, 2006 – It was the year 2000, and casino gambling revenues had hit an all-time high, nearly $859 million, won mostly from tourists driving from California into Nevada. Then, 100 miles to the west, a hulking Indian casino opened with a gaming floor big enough to fill half of a Wal-Mart Supercenter. In the years that followed, tribal gaming helped siphon off nearly $600 million in business from its nearby competitors, taking […]

]]>July 23, 2006 – It was the year 2000, and casino gambling revenues had hit an all-time high, nearly $859 million, won mostly from tourists driving from California into Nevada.

Then, 100 miles to the west, a hulking Indian casino opened with a gaming floor big enough to fill half of a Wal-Mart Supercenter. In the years that followed, tribal gaming helped siphon off nearly $600 million in business from its nearby competitors, taking jobs with it and forcing smaller casinos to close their doors.

It’s not a scenario of what could happen to Shreveport-Bossier City’s casinos if Texas expands gaming; it’s the reality facing Reno, Nev., a city of 200,000 residents on the slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the northern part of the state.

“It was doom and gloom all the way,” Deanna Ashby, executive director of marketing at Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority, said of the early predictions of the impact California’s gaming expansion would have on Reno.

“Everyone knew it would hit the day-tripper coming over the hill, and it did,” said Michael Whitemaine, who last week celebrated his one-year anniversary as general manager of Shreveport’s Eldorado casino after spending 24 years working in Reno. “Revenues went down 15 or 20 percent immediately.”

Aside from a tumble in gaming revenue, the number of people working in Reno’s casino-hotel industry dropped by nearly a third since its peak six years ago.

Gaming analysts note that a variety of factors at work in the marketplace, the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the faltering of the California dot.com industry, for example took some wind out of Reno’s casino industry.

But having 2,700 slot machines and 98 table games almost the equivalent of two Shreveport riverboats in the Thunder Valley casino along the interstate linking Californians to Reno didn’t help either. Thunder Valley now grosses more than $400 million a year, nearly half of what Reno’s 23 casinos combined take in annually.

“Had there not been a California gaming industry, we would have been able to grow at the same rate as in the ’90s and be about one-third larger than what we are now,” said Bill Eadington, professor of economics and director of the Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming at the University of Nevada, Reno.

]]>http://ddlorigin.com/play-in-california/feed/0Gamblers Anonymous Rolls Out Internet Plan to Help Gamblershttp://ddlorigin.com/gamblers-anonymous/
http://ddlorigin.com/gamblers-anonymous/#respondTue, 06 Feb 2018 12:10:31 +0000http://ddlorigin.com/?p=15In an effort to minimize problem gamblers on the Internet, Gamblers Anonymous in Scotland is planning to use the Internet for assistance. Gamblers Anonymous has announced that it plans to roll out Skype, which allows phone calls over the Internet to be made free from the Highlands and other small communities with poor transport links. Based in Glasgow, the charity will launch the program later this year. They are purchasing 50 VOIP telephones which enable […]

]]>In an effort to minimize problem gamblers on the Internet, Gamblers Anonymous in Scotland is planning to use the Internet for assistance.

Gamblers Anonymous has announced that it plans to roll out Skype, which allows phone calls over the Internet to be made free from the Highlands and other small communities with poor transport links.

Based in Glasgow, the charity will launch the program later this year. They are purchasing 50 VOIP telephones which enable members to make calls via broadband and have the ability to connect with as many as 12 problem gamblers. The meetings will be chaired by a senior GA volunteer based at a central location such as Edinburgh or Inverness.

The charity believes it will save thousands of pounds in the long term over their current land-line systems of phone conferencing.

“There are people in places like Portree Arran and parts of southern Ayrshire, Dumfries, and Galloway who can’t travel the long distances to their nearest meetings in Inverness or Carlisle,” a Gambler’s Anonymous spokesman said. “People in these communities are as vulnerable to Internet gambling as people in the big cities who have meetings on their doorstep.”

Gamblers Anonymous is also planning to upgrade its website, www.gascotland.org, which receives 600 hits a month, to include message boards for members to swap advice and support.

Crawford Moodie, a psychologist at Glasgow Caledonian University, who has conducted several studies on gambling, said: “I think using Skype to reach remote communities is a fantastic idea. It’s more good news after a week which saw the super-casinos put on hold.”

]]>http://ddlorigin.com/gamblers-anonymous/feed/0Fort Madison, Iowa, Casino Boat Closing Down After 13 Yearshttp://ddlorigin.com/casino-boat/
http://ddlorigin.com/casino-boat/#respondMon, 18 Sep 2017 12:10:30 +0000http://ddlorigin.com/?p=14Gambling on the water has been a way that many casino operators have gotten around local gambling laws, but the recent expansion and legalization of land based casinos has led to the end of one of Iowa’s gambling boats. Catfish Bend received permission today to shut down its struggling Fort Madison casino gambling boat and the shutdown will be effective as of November 15th. The boat had been running out of Fort Madison in the […]

]]>Gambling on the water has been a way that many casino operators have gotten around local gambling laws, but the recent expansion and legalization of land based casinos has led to the end of one of Iowa’s gambling boats.

Catfish Bend received permission today to shut down its struggling Fort Madison casino gambling boat and the shutdown will be effective as of November 15th.

The boat had been running out of Fort Madison in the summer and then spent the winter months in Burlington.

The company, Catfish Bend has an operating land based casino in Burlington on Highway 61. The casino has four restaurants, a convention center, a water park, a bowling center, 180 hotel rooms, and a large gaming floor.

180 people will lose their jobs because of the boat being shut down, but they all will not be from the boat, as the company has said that it will be employees that have been with the company for less than six months and that some of the employees from the boat would be transferred to the land based operation.

While the company feels the land based casino hurt their business, others feel that it was mismanagement that caused the gambling boat to not be profitable.

New Brunswick Takes First Step Toward Casino Gambling

Tourism is down in the province of New Brunswick, and when tourism is down, a casino is usually not far behind, as the province has decided to allow their first casino.

Over the past five years there has been a decline of 25 percent in New Brunswick’s tourism, and while a casino will not completely solve the problem, officials from the province believe it will help.

“We feel when visitors are coming to New Brunswick, giving them more options, more things to do while they’re here in the province will certainly help”, said Finance Minister Victor Bourdreau, in talking about the lagging tourism industry.

Requests for proposals were issued on Thursday and the hope is that by 2010, there will be an operating casino in the province. The only province left without casino gambling after today’s announcement is Newfoundland and Labrador.

The deadline for proposals is set for March 11th, and anyone looking to make a proposal should include other services such as restaurants, entertainment facilities, hotel rooms, and possibly harness racing, as they will be key components in the application reviews.

]]>http://ddlorigin.com/casino-boat/feed/0Focus on the Family Should Focus on Facts of Gambling Issueshttp://ddlorigin.com/gambling-issues/
http://ddlorigin.com/gambling-issues/#respondTue, 22 Aug 2017 12:10:29 +0000http://ddlorigin.com/?p=13For those of you who follow Focus on the Family via their ‘news’ website CitizenLink.com, as well as the Florida Family Action group associated with Focus on the Family, let this reporter give you the answer you will receive from Governor Crist or his aid when you call him as you were told to do by your religious organization. You were told to call Governor Crist and express your anger at him because he is […]

]]>For those of you who follow Focus on the Family via their ‘news’ website CitizenLink.com, as well as the Florida Family Action group associated with Focus on the Family, let this reporter give you the answer you will receive from Governor Crist or his aid when you call him as you were told to do by your religious organization.

You were told to call Governor Crist and express your anger at him because he is in negotiations with the Seminole Indians over bringing full gambling casinos to the state. You were told that Crist is flip-flopping on the issue and that you should be really mad. You are told a lot of things by Chad Hills at Focus on the Family, except you are never told the truth.

Here is what Governor Crist will say to you when you call him to express your outrage…

“I know I said I am against the expansion of gambling,” Crist will say, “and I am. But the Federal Interior Department told us that if we don’t come to a deal with the Seminoles that allows full table games at their casinos by a certain date, the Seminoles will be allowed to expand their casinos anyway and we won’t be able to use any of that money for our state.”

“You see,” Crist will say, “the voters already voted last year to allow Class III style games in Broward casinos, therefore, unfortunately, we are obligated to allow the Seminoles those same rights.”

There, that should save all you who were going to call Governor Crist in anger some time.

It is important to understand with this issue, as well as most issues related to gambling that CitizenLink.com means to ‘inform’ you about, that they are not telling you the full truth.

Take for instance Internet gambling. They will tell you that we must ban Internet gambling to protect underage and problem gamblers. This sounds reasonable, however, there is proof, real proof, not opinions based on ideas, but scientific, experimented, studied, conclusive proof that says it is better to legalize and regulate the industry in order that we can protect underage gamblers from gambling online and provide problem gamblers with the resources they need to keep them from gambling online. Without regulation underage and problem gamblers can easily go to an online casino and gamble and there is nothing we can do to help them.

So please, do not take much of anything that Chad Hills, or other reporters say at Focus on the Family, or CitizenLink.com, to heart, because they are only telling you part of the story.

PS – That thing about it being better to protect problem and underage gamblers by regulating the industry did not come from a pro-gambling group, it actually from the most anti-gambling group there is… The National Council in Problem Gambling.

]]>http://ddlorigin.com/gambling-issues/feed/0Florida Supreme Court Could Take Slots Away Over Fraud Issuehttp://ddlorigin.com/slots-away/
http://ddlorigin.com/slots-away/#respondMon, 24 Jul 2017 12:10:28 +0000http://ddlorigin.com/?p=12It has been nearly three years since citizens voted into law that slot machines should be allowed at the states parimutuel locations, now there are groups who are concerned about the validity of that vote. The Supreme Court of Florida will now decide whether a trial will take place where three organizations, the Humane Society of the United States, Floridians Against Expanded Gambling, and Grey2KUSA, will have the right to prove their allegations in a […]

]]>It has been nearly three years since citizens voted into law that slot machines should be allowed at the states parimutuel locations, now there are groups who are concerned about the validity of that vote.

The Supreme Court of Florida will now decide whether a trial will take place where three organizations, the Humane Society of the United States, Floridians Against Expanded Gambling, and Grey2KUSA, will have the right to prove their allegations in a court of law.

The coalition maintains that many signatures that were on the initial petition to allow the slot question on the ballot were forged, and some even were so ridiculous that they were not even real people, they were pets. Others were people who were not even alive at the time of signing the petition.

The group is seeking a trial to defend and give evidence to support what they believe. If the trial is granted, and the group does indeed prove that fraud existed, it could be a devastating blow to three Broward County pari-mutuels, Mardi Gras Racetrack and Gaming Center, Gulfstream Park, and The Isle Casino and Racing at Pompano Park. All of which have spent multi million dollars to build their casino rooms.

Scott Makar, Florida’s solicitor general was representing Secretary of State Kurt Browning, had this to say, “When you have massive fraud, it should not be rewarded.”

On the other side of the battle is Floridians For a Level Playing Field, the group that got the amendment on the ballot, they believe that the argument is useless because the amendment passed by 93,000 votes. They also believe that if there was fraud, that this is a case that should have been handled three years ago, and that the anti gambling groups are simply using this angle to try and overturn the vote on gambling in the state.

The next step in the process is a Supreme Court ruling on whether election results can be invalidated or a trial on fraud allegations could take place. It is not yet determined when that ruling will come down.

]]>http://ddlorigin.com/slots-away/feed/0Florida Seminoles Get Class III Games if Deal Not Met by Next Weekhttp://ddlorigin.com/class-iii-games/
http://ddlorigin.com/class-iii-games/#respondFri, 23 Jun 2017 12:10:25 +0000http://ddlorigin.com/?p=11The State of Florida was notified by letter on Monday that if it does not reach an agreement with the Seminole Tribe of Florida in the allowance of Class III gaming, the Department of the Interior will step in to allow such gaming. In the letter, Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, Carl Altman wrote “The Department has the responsibility to the Tribe”, referring to the 2004 constitutional amendment passed by voters in Broward County which […]

]]>The State of Florida was notified by letter on Monday that if it does not reach an agreement with the Seminole Tribe of Florida in the allowance of Class III gaming, the Department of the Interior will step in to allow such gaming.

In the letter, Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, Carl Altman wrote “The Department has the responsibility to the Tribe”, referring to the 2004 constitutional amendment passed by voters in Broward County which allow for Las Vegas Style Slots at pari-mutuals. “This leaves the Tribe on an unfair playing field if it is allowed on Class II games”, continued the letter.

The letter gave Florida’s Governor, Charlie Crist until November 15 to reach a compact with the Seminoles. The letter further stated that if a state-compact is not reached by then that “the Department will issue Class III gaming procedures.”

Crist is on a trade mission in Brazil, but the governor has been positive about reaching a deal with the Seminoles to garner some tax revenue for the state, which, without a compact, would be forfeited.

Crist said “I understand they’re sort of forcing the issue and the issue is they’re going to make us do it one way or another, I want to make sure we’re protecting taxpayers interests first, Florida’s interest first….We’ll do the right thing.”

Both sides have said the negotiations have been positive since Crist took office in January, after very little progress was made during talks with former governor Jeb Bush.

The State is looking to realize more than $100 million a year in return for the Seminoles to be allowed to offer games such as Blackjack, Baccarat, Vegas Slots, and a guarantee that the state will not allow competing games within certain geographic area near their casinos.

A lawyer representing the Seminole’s, Barry Richard said, “Neither the tribe nor the state prefers to have procedures from the Department of the Interior, Under the procedures, the state gets no revenue, under the compact, the state gets a great deal of revenue.”

]]>http://ddlorigin.com/class-iii-games/feed/0Florida Lottery Has Rare Occurrence With 1111 Hitting in Play 4http://ddlorigin.com/florida-lottery/
http://ddlorigin.com/florida-lottery/#respondFri, 24 Feb 2017 11:20:37 +0000http://ddlorigin.com/?p=1The odds are not strong that four of the same numbers will be drawn in the Play 4 game from the Florida lottery, but on Thursday that rare feat was achieved when 1111 came out. So rare is the occurrence, in fact, that since the games inception seventeen years ago on July 4th, 1991, the same four numbers have been drawn only seven times. The rarity of the same numbers coming out raises the winning […]

]]>The odds are not strong that four of the same numbers will be drawn in the Play 4 game from the Florida lottery, but on Thursday that rare feat was achieved when 1111 came out.

So rare is the occurrence, in fact, that since the games inception seventeen years ago on July 4th, 1991, the same four numbers have been drawn only seven times.

The rarity of the same numbers coming out raises the winning prize money, but the lottery caps the amount of tickets that can be sold with the same numbers and that also, in turn, caps the money that can be won at $5 million. That amount was won on Thursday and also back in 2006, when the numbers 2222 were drawn.

The numbers 3333 and 0000 have both come out twice, and 9999 also has come up once. 7777, 8888, 6666, 5555, and 4444 have never been drawn.

When 0000 was drawn the payout was only $502,500, meaning that the numbers 1111 and 2222 are much more popular plays by people in Florida.

In the cash 3 game, the same numbers have been drawn 71 times since the start of the game back in April, 1988.

Indiana and Kentucky May Soon Battle for Casino Gambling Customers

States across the country are scrambling to grab their share of the riches and revenue casino gambling is generating, and now that Kentucky may be next, Indiana is pondering how to protect its own windfall.

Kentucky Governor-elect Steve Beshear campaigned vigorously and vociferously on the need for gaming and casinos in the Bluegrass State, and now that he?s in office, Indiana officials concede he will probably win a legislative fight to establish licensed casinos, some of which will fall near their common border.

Indiana knows it cannot prevent Kentucky from attempting to draw customers that presently visit riverboat sites located along the common border on the Indiana side. So, in a farsighted move designed to win any competition from future Kentucky establishments, Indiana gaming officials are renovating and expanding, providing newer, nicer, and bigger facilities for their customers.

High quality restaurants and golf courses are appearing around luxurious new casino buildings in the hope plush surroundings will still lure out-of-state players.

This year Indiana is expected to receive $650 million in state payments and $200 million in local taxes from gambling and casinos.